![]() ![]() She's so reluctant to allow herself any happiness that his adoration is almost immersion therapy. It'll be interesting to see (perhaps) how he creeps into her life as a romantic interest as the series progresses. Guy Pearce plays an out-of-towner who takes an immediate liking to Winslet's Mare, despite her best efforts to shun him and most everyone else around her. ![]() It's the kind of show that hits you with big broad beats, but also sort of winks at the smaller moments, letting you know that you should be paying attention to everything said and shown because it'll probably come back in some shape or form. With a rogue's gallery of suspects contained in a capable cast featuring the severely dressed-down Jean Smart, Guy Pearce, David Denman, Neal Huff, James McArdle, and more, Mare of Easttown gives us a formidable look inside the town's inner drama. There will be crimes around her, and they'll (presumedly) be solved by the end of this limited series, but the primary arc we're following is Mare - her family, her grief, and how (it sure seems like) everyone in her area code resents her for different reasons. For sure, they're a big element, but the main draw is Mare and the chaos that engulfs her on a daily basis. As the episode ends, a whole new case of nightmares opens up for Mare and the town in a way that suggests that the overarching "whodunnit?" stories shouldn't be seen as the absolute focus here. In the end, however, the resolution of the major conflicts gives her some peace, and you know that she's going to nervously puff on her e-cigarette, purse her lips, and somehow manage to stop being haunted by the past as she resolutely walks toward the future.Mare is a year deep into a missing persons case that's gone absolutely nowhere, and now a new detective from the county is being called in to assist (though he, played by Evan Peters, won't arrive until episode 2). It is the murder mystery that provides the most tension, along with the dramatic conflict between Mare's personal and professional life, which she navigates like a drunken sailor who swears a lot. They have been locked up in a room for some time, but they are relatively unscathed. When the two girls are eventually found, it is a bit too pat. Every suspect rings true until it is clear that everyone, including Mare, was barking up the wrong tree. No one really trusts each other, and there are ancient grudges and petty hostilities. The whodunit in a small town plays out like a game of Clue. Two young women in Easttown are missing, and a third has been found shot dead in the woods. ![]() Her performance as a dedicated but jaded detective reminds me of Israeli actress Yael Sharoni, who also plays a detective in the series When Heroes Fly. She has some nervous eccentricities that connect the outer and inner Mare so that occasionally she is a whole person, but never for very long. She is relentless and driven when she is seeking truth and justice. She is tough on the outside, fragile on the inside. Mare is emotionally exhausted, taking solace from family, a few close friends, and her work as a detective. Even then, some of her luminescent beauty still shines through. She has to work hard to look middle-aged and plain, which she achieves with no make-up, hair with dark roots that needed a fresh dye long ago, and by making her voluptuous curves look shapeless under worn jeans and Walmart hoodies. Winslet breaks new ground with this role where she is neither British nor beautiful. As Mare explains to her date (Guy Pearce), "My life is a **** show." The grandson’s mother, also drug addicted, has been through rehab and now wants to regain custody of the child that Mare adores. She is a divorced mom who has a rebellious teenaged daughter, a drug-addicted son who committed suicide, and a grandson whom she is raising. Winslet is a cop in Easttown, PA, a small town where everyone knows each other and where her character, detective Mare Sheehan, has to both solve murders and take care of trivial complaints. The plot is a bit uneven, and I almost lost interest after Episode 1, but I came back to watch Kate Winslet play an American detective with a Pennsylvania accent.
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